Khayl Adam

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Praise be to the Emperor of Mankind; developer Owlcat Games, best known for its Pathfinder series of CRPGs and the excellent Rogue Trader, has announced its next game: Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy. In addition, Rogue Trader’s next expansion has been revealed, along with plans for future additions.

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Hellblade 2: Senua’s Saga has, inevitably, been announced for release on PS5, as the concept of Microsoft or Xbox exclusive content becomes ever more meaningless. Ninja Theory’s insanely over-hyped adventure game will arrive on PlayStation in enhanced form sometime in the Summer. On the one-year anniversary of its initial release, it seems Xbox Games Studios couldn’t wait another moment to announce the news.

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Developer Arrowhead Game’s ludicrous multiplayer shooter, Helldivers 2, has come a long way, and at long last, intergalactic war has come to the heart of Managed Democracy itself. The battle for Super Earth has begun, with the release of the next major expansion, Heart of Democracy. Live now, Heart of Democracy introduces the Mega Cities of Super Earth itself and something players have been asking for since launch.

1 month ago | pushsquare.com | Khayl Adam |Anthony Dickens

Blades of Fire is a dark fantasy action adventure game inspired by Santa Monica Studio's modern God of War series and FromSoftware's Souls series, and it's a fairly compelling melding of the two. Central to its narrative and gameplay is the ability to forge a wide variety of powerful melee weapons, and gathering the materials required to do so forms its central gameplay loop.

1 month ago | khayladam.substack.com | Khayl Adam

In the latest season of Fortnite, Epic added an AI chatbot that uses the voice of Sith Lord Darth Vader to respond to players’ ridiculous prompts, in the iconic style of the late actor James Earl Jones. The US labour union, SAG-AFTRA, has challenged its usage, despite the Jones family having blessed Epic to do so, saying that the move takes work away from voice actors. It certainly does, but if we’re being honest, it’s starting to look like SAG has lost this particular battle.